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Space Shuttle Columbia Breaks Up Over Texas

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the not-looking-good dept.

An anonymous reader writes "NASA lost communication with space shuttle Columbia shortly before its scheduled landing on Saturday. It was unclear whether there were any other problems." Various news programs have been showing debris falling from the sky, and NASA has declared an emergency.Update: 02/01 15:29 GMT by H : Confirmation has come - the shuttle has broken up over Texas while coming in for landing Florida.

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  1. Re:Too high and too fast for missiles... by ZaMoose · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    I'm sorry that I misconstrued your intent. While the general population of /. tends to be very pro-space exploration, they also tend to be fairly anti-U.S. gov., particularly when it comes to the DoJ and DoD. I mistook you for one of the anti-DoD'ers.

    Many apologies. I'm a bit broken up over this whole thing. I was home sick on Jan 28th, 1986 and watched the Challenger disintegrate live on TV. This whole incident brought those memories back in a flash. Sorry that I rushed to judgement.

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